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Frans Hals Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
The official website of the Frans Hals Museum, features facts and works by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch painters, including portraits, still-lifes, genre paintings, and landscapes. The collection, however, focuses on the work...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Business, Making of African American Identity: V. 2

For Students 9th - 10th
A painting and an appeal that explore the role business played in black uplift in nineteenth-century America. This resource focuses on the work of Edward Bannister (1828-1901), one of the leading black painters of the nineteenth century.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Progress: The Meaning of the Machine: Human Machines

For Students 9th - 10th
An excerpt from efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management that describes how to make a human work like a machine; painter Thomas Anshutz's The Ironworkers' Noontime that suggests the cost of...
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BBC

Bbc: Simon Schama's Power of Art: Picasso

For Students 9th - 10th
From the BBC's documentary series on art "Simon Schama's Power of Art", this is the web-page synopsis version of the program on the Spanish master modernist painter Pablo Picasso.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Sisley, Alfred

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of impressionist French painter, Alfred Sisley. Links to fellow impressionist, Edouard Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Monet, and Bazille. A gallery of his work is included with selected insights. Great links are provided to...
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Henri Matisse (Biographie en Francais)

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of twentieth-century French painter Henri Matisse.
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Ibiblio: Web Museum: Raphael

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed biography on the famous Italian painter Raphael who lived during the high Italian Renaissance. Discusses his influences by other artists, his works, and links to images of them.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Artists by Movement: Post Impressionism

For Students 9th - 10th
Artcyclopedia provides a list of post-impressionist painters. Click on a name to see a list of links to galleries and museums with the artist's work.
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ibiblio

Ibiblio: Web Museum: Caspar David Friedrich

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of German Romantic painter Caspar Friedrich, including pictures of some of his paintings.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a wonderful comprehensive resource for German-born American painter, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze. Explore the hyperlinks to Leutze's most important works with images, biographies, articles on the artist, and other sites related to...
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Bibliomania

Bibliomania: Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poetry

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of the poem "The Blessed Damozel" by the pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882).
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Rice University

Northern Renaissance: Its in the Details

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides an outline that contains stylistic differences between Northern Renaissance painters and their Italian counterparts. Images are offered.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: The Eight

For Students 9th - 10th
Examples of work by a group of early Modernist painters known as "The Eight." Gives a brief history of the group.
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ArtLex

Art Lex: Ashcan School

For Students 9th - 10th
Many examples of work by the group of painters known as the "Ashcan School." Brief history of the group as well.
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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission

Explore Pa History: George Catlin

For Students 3rd - 8th
A succinct biographical sketch that examines the contributions of noted painter of Native American portraits and Pennsylvania native, George Catlin.
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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission

Explore Pa History: Horace Pippin

For Students 3rd - 8th
A concise biographical sketch that examines the contributions of African American painter and Pennsylvania native, Horace Pippin.
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CGFA

Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Winslow Homer

For Students 9th - 10th
Nice biography of the American Naturalist painter, Winslow Homer, known for his paintings, "The Croquet Game" and "Home,Sweet Home."
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Dissecting Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi

For Students 9th - 10th
The scene of the three wise men offering gifts to a newborn Jesus was widely painted during the Renaissance era, so how did painter Sandro Botticelli create a version that's still well known today? James Earle describes who and what set...
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: Borduas

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource furnishes detailed biographical information on Canadian painter, Paul-Emile Borduas.
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University of the Arts, London: Paintings at Universal Leonardo

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a collection of 25 paintings by Renaissance-era master painters, including more than a dozen of Leonardo's most famous works. Paintings are accompanied by links to explanations of the artistic problems and puzzles that fascinated...
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National Museum of Science and Technology: Leonardo

For Students 9th - 10th
Leonardo da Vinci, famous Renaissance painter and inventor, is the subject of a special collection of resources maintained by the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, Italy. Includes a gallery of his work, his biography,...
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Nebraska Center for Writers: Weldon Kees

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Weldon Kees (1914-1955?) was not only an important minor poet of the mid-20th century American literary scene, he was also a fiction writer, playwright, cultural critic and impresario, filmmaker and photographer, abstract expressionist...
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Columbus Museum of Art: Curator's View: Edward Hopper's "Morning Sun"

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Curator's View series at the Columbus Museum of Art, this is the piece profile on the American social realist, modern painter, Edward Hopper's, painting "Morning Sun".
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Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: Tom Thomson

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive biographical information on the life and works of Canadian landscape painter Tom Thomson, who drowned before he could become an official member of the Group of Seven.

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